32 percent of Latino students try suicide
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
By Staff
By Monica Chen : The Herald-Sun
mchen@heraldsun.com
Jan 30, 2008
DURHAM — Latino high school students are twice as likely to attempt suicide as their white and black classmates, according to a recent health survey conducted by the Durham County Health Department and Durham Public Schools.
In 2007, about 32 percent of Latino high school students in Durham said they had attempted suicide in the past 12 months, according to the annual Community Health Assessment report.
Fifteen percent of other students in Durham and 13.8 percent of all high school students in central North Carolina tried to take their own lives.
Upon hearing of the findings, those familiar with the Latino immigrant population expressed shock at the high percentage, but said pressures and anxieties caused by immigration could be the cause. (more…)
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